Clothes-pounder.



' Nu. 702,506. V Patented :une 7, |902'.

s.. B. TAnLocK.

" CLOTHES POUNDEB.

(Applic'ation led Apr. 11, 1901.)

' (Np Model.)

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UNITED STATI-3s PATENT OFFICE.

STERLING BUNYAN TADLOCK, CF JUNCTION CITY, ARKANSAS.

CLoTHEs-POUNDER..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 702,506, dated June ,17, 1902.

' Application filed April 11,1901. Serial No. 55,3177. (No model.)

To @ZZ v11171/0711/ it may concern:

lBe it knownthat I, STERLING BUNYAN TAD- LOCK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Junction City, in the county of Union and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and useful Clothes-Founder, of which the following is a specification. The invention relates to improvements in clothes-pounders.

1o The object of the present invention is toimprove the construction of clothes-pounders and to provide a simple and efficient one ca pable of enabling clothes to be rapidly and thoroughly washed and adapted to soap the t5 clothes during the operation of Washing.

Afurther object of the invention is to provide a clothes-pounder having a soap-holder adapted to be readily removed and replaced for supplying it with soap and for other pur- 2o poses.

The invention consists in the construction `and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed 2 5 out in the claims heretoappended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a clothes-pounder constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a reverse plan view. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view. Fig. 4 is a detail view showing another form of soap-holder. Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the draw-Y towardthe top of the inner shell,whichisA supported by-tapering-plates 5,v arranged radially and extending from the bottom to the top of the inner shell. The radially-arranged 5o plates, which are slightly inclined to conform to the configuration of the shells, have their longitudinal edges secured to the same, and

they divide. the lannular space, as clearly Ishown in Fig. r2. Theinner and outer shells are also connected` near the bottom by radially-arran ged tubes 6,`disposed at a slight inclination' and extending downward and outward and forming passages for air and water. The tubes communicate with suitable perforations 3? and 1a of the innervand outer shells, as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

The upperend of the outerA shell is united to the cylindrical sleeve or socket 2, and the upper end of 'the inner shell is lspaced from both of those parts to permit'water to pass upward through the space 4. and flow over into a soap-holder 7, which is detachably secured to the inner shell and which depends from the topvof the same. The inner shell is provided on yits interior `with 2 an annular horizontally-disposed flange or seat 8, having apertures or openings 9 arranged at intervals and adaptedto permit lugs 10 of a soap-receptacle 11'to be passed through them and arranged above the flange or seat. The soap receptacle or holder, which is cylindrical, is engaged with the supporting flange or seat by passing thellugs upward through the openings or apertures 9 and by partially rotating the soap holderror receptacle to carry the lugs 10 away from such-openings. By this means the soap-holder may be readily attached to and removed .from .the clothespounder. The soap receptacle or holder, which is open at its top and closed at its bottom, is providedwith perforations or openings 13 for the passage of water, and the perforations 13 are designed to be small, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, when it is employed'for holding soft soap; but when ordinary hard soap is used openings 15, such as are shown in Fig. 4, may be provided. A

Thelower-portion of the soap-holder is sup- -portedby a bracel 16, consisting of a rod secured' at its outer end to the inner shell and provided at its inner end with a ring 17 receiv-k ing the soap-holdery and being of a sufficient sizeto permit the lugs to .passfthrough-it.

It will be seen that the pounder is adapted to force air and water-through the clothes and that it is capable of automatically soaping the clothes during the operation of washing and that suchoperation may be much more rapidly performed than when the clothes IOO 5 edges of the inner shell into the holder.

1. A clothes-pounder comprising an outer shell, an inner shell spaced throughout its entire length from the outer shell and supo ported from the saine, said inner shell being open at its top to permit water to iow upward in the space between it and the outer shell and to iow over its upper edges and pass downward through it, and a soap-holder ar- 5 ranged within the inner shell and detachably connected with the saine at the top thereof, said soap-holder being open at the top and arranged to receive the water flowing over the upper edges of the said inner shell, substantially as described.

2. A clothes-pounder comprising a shell, open at the top to permit water to flow over its upper edges a cylindrical soap-holder detachably interlocked at its upper end to the shell, and a brace mounted on the shell and provided with a ring arranged to receive the soap-holder, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my Signature in the presence of two witnesses.

S. BUNYAN TADLOCK.

Witnesses:

F. C. NoRnIs, A. J. MARTIN. 

